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The Supreme Court of Canada has declined to shut down the Attorney General of Canada’s fraud action against the Saskatchewan law firm which Ottawa paid $25 million for representing thousands of former students of Indian residential schools in individual and class litigation that was settled 12 years ago. ... [read more]

Women’s groups and the defence bar are preparing to butt heads at the Supreme Court of Canada after the top court announced on International Women’s Day that it will hear a defence appeal from an important judgment on the law of sexual assault and consent. ... [read more]

A sleeper Supreme Court judgment that recently threw out a man’s sexual assault conviction because Edmonton police elicited an inculpatory statement from him using a flawed standard caution will generate defence bids to exclude similarly tainted evidence in Alberta, Ontario and any other jurisdictions which also have constitutionally defective standard police cautions, predicts the Edmonton defence counsel who won the case. ... [read more]

Appeal from a judgment of the Alberta Court of Appeal that affirmed a decision concluding that Bird Construction Co. (Bird) had no duty to disclose the existence of a trust contained in a labour and material payment bond to Valard Construction Ltd. (Valard). ... [read more]

In an important construction law ruling, the Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that a general contractor who was the obligee/trustee under a labour and material payment bond for a construction project in the Alberta oil sands had a fiduciary obligation to timely notify a subcontractor stuck with unpaid bills from that project of the existence of the bond. ... [read more]

The Supreme Court has clarified the test for mandatory interlocutory injunctions in a judgment which holds that CBC need not remove website content that identified a young murder victim before a publication ban shielded her identity. ... [read more]

Appeal by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) from a judgment of the Alberta Court of Appeal which set aside the decision that dismissed the Crown’s motion for an interlocutory injunction. ... [read more]

In a boost for historic First Nations claims and the largely unheralded work of the Specific Claims Tribunal (SCT), a divided Supreme Court of Canada has restored the tribunal’s ruling that the Colony of British Columbia breached its fiduciary obligation to preserve the lands of the Williams Lake Indian Band from white settlement before Confederation — and that the federal Crown is responsible for that breach, as well as for Ottawa’s own failure to meet its obligations to the band after B.C. joined Confederation in 1871. ... [read more]

Appeal by the Williams Lake Indian Band (Band) from a judgment of the Federal Court of Appeal allowing Canada’s application for judicial review of a decision of the Specific Claims Tribunal (Tribunal). ... [read more]